Monday, August 7, 2023
Performing at the Edinburgh festival is hugely stressful, but the things I learned there have been useful offstage too
If the beginning of September still makes me think I need a new noteboo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:55AMSunday, July 26, 2020
Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus, Greece (streaming online)Staged outside, this live production of Aeschylus’ tragedy reminds us how even mighty powers can be brought low by too much confidenc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AMThursday, March 7, 2019
Barbican, LondonSimon Stone’s smart and harrowing retelling of Euripides is performed by a flawless ensemble
Euripides’ Medea was first performed in Athens, in 431BC– and it came last…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:58AMTuesday, November 27, 2018
Garrick, LondonThe National Youth Theatre’s urgent, gender-fluid production bubbles with intimacy, brutality and fearSpace is in such short supply in the West End that the National Youth T…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:04AMThursday, September 20, 2018
SPID theatre, LondonHelena Thompson’s passionate and pacy drama is a celebration and defence of social housing‘I’d love to call time on this, the world’s worst play,” says Em, a co…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:54AMTuesday, September 11, 2018
Sandi Toksvig is right: TV comedy can be brutal for women. Luckily, there’s a simple solutionWhen Sandi Toksvig says women are cut out of panel shows, she really isn’t exaggerating. I on…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:48PMTuesday, July 10, 2018
Chichester Festival theatre Jokes aplenty, catchy songs and a cleverly staged production – there’s much to enjoy as Matt Lucas’s stand-in, Ryan Pidgen, and Caroline Quentin shine Danie…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48AMWednesday, July 4, 2018
Theatr Clwyd, MoldKatherine Parkinson is superb in Laura Wade’s play about a woman who lives like a 1950s housewife in the 21st centuryJudy and Johnny live in a 1950s dream home. She is dr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:32AMFriday, June 29, 2018
Ustinov, BathElizabeth Freestone’s highly kinetic production matches an often vulnerable Henry with a wonderfully punky KatharineHenry V is a king in name only at the beginning of Elizabet…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AMWednesday, June 6, 2018
★★★★☆/★★☆☆☆The Other Place, Stratford-upon-Avon Can Dündar’s jail memoir inspires an audacious drama while the presumed murder of 43 students in Mexico drives an uneve…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:42PMTuesday, May 29, 2018
Harold Pinter theatre, LondonRoger Michell directs the West End transfer of Nina Raine’s smart play about a group of lawyers and their private livesConsent opens in an unapologetically upp…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:48PMTuesday, March 13, 2018
New Vic theatre, Newcastle-under-LymeThere are shades of Shaw in this rare revival of Elizabeth Robins’ warm and sincere playElizabeth Robins should be better known than she is. An America…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMFriday, September 22, 2017
Shakespeare plucked an obscure Roman general from Plutarch and made him a principled but uncompromising hero. As the RSC brings the play back, its brutal statement on class divide and convic…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18AMTuesday, April 14, 2015
The message of Lansbury’s Olivier award at the age of 89 – for her Madame Arcati, in Blithe Spirit – is that old does not have to mean frail Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMFriday, February 27, 2015
A production of Antigone starring Juliette Binoche, from a translation by Anne Carson, opens this week. Natalie Haynes on a protagonist who is either brave or disobedientIt is a vintage time…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:30AM 
